Sidebar text archive?

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  splicehere · Member · Aug 27, 2011 at 9:09 pm

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  I’d like to add something to my blog that you might call “quote of the day.” This would appear in the sidebar — a short snippet of text. I know how to do that with a text widget, of course, but I’d like to figure a way to turn it into a sort of mini-blog, so you could look back through a history of these things, organized by date. I can do it manually, of course, by copying the last item into a page, dating it, and then replacing the text in the widget, but I thought there might be a slicker way to do it.

  Any suggestions, anybody?

  Many thanks,
  Steve

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 28, 2011 at 12:28 am

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  Hi Steve. To my knowlege, retrieving automatically such information would require JavaScript or PHP. The only place where I’ve seen a widget with “random posts” is iNove, but only if you leave the default widgets as they are.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 28, 2011 at 1:22 am

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  I’m wondering if there would be a way to put a text widget with an rss feed to a second (free) site. The second site could be linked via a custom menu so readers could see all of the “quote of the day” posts and also see the most current one.

  Text widget because I’m working on a blog where formatting the quote would be nice. But if you did not want background color or font specifications, then may be just an rss widget to a second site????

  You can use a text widget to have readers see a random post:
  <a href="http://YOUR_BLOG_LINK.wordpress.com/?random">

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 28, 2011 at 1:24 am

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  well, close the a tag:

  <a href="http://YOUR_BLOG_LINK.wordpress.com/?random">
  </a>